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Introduction To Willa Cather And Modern Cultures [Cather Studies 9], Melissa J. Homestead
Introduction To Willa Cather And Modern Cultures [Cather Studies 9], Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
To some, linking Willa Cather to "the modern" or more narrowly to literary modernism still seems an eccentric proposition. As Richard Millington has pointed out, "one will look in vain for Cather's name in the index of most accounts, whether new or old, of the nature and history of Anglo-American modernism" (52). Perhaps she fails to feature in these accounts because in her public pronouncements and certain recurring motifs in her fiction, she appeared to turn her back on modernity. Cather was skeptical about many aspects of the culture that took shape around her in the early decades of the …
Willa Cather [From Blackwell Encyclopedia Of Twentieth-Century American Fiction], Melissa J. Homestead
Willa Cather [From Blackwell Encyclopedia Of Twentieth-Century American Fiction], Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Willa Cather is known primarily for her novels representing the experiences of women immigrants on the Nebraska prairies in the late nineteenth century, but Cather’s 10 novels and scores of short stories’ produced over a career spanning 50 years actually range widely over space and time, from seventeenth-century Quebec to twentieth century New York. A social conservative who proudly identified herself as one of the backward-looking, her experiments with fictional form and her approach to culture nevertheless ally her with modernism. It is, perhaps, the depth and diversity of Cather’s body of work and the impossibility of reducing her achievement …
Every Week Essays: Associated Sunday Magazines And The Origins Of Every Week, Melissa J. Homestead
Every Week Essays: Associated Sunday Magazines And The Origins Of Every Week, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Every Week Magazine, published from 1915-1918, was a significant magazine phenomenon of its day, with a weekly circulation of 600,000 copies. The contents provide a rich cultural resource for those interested in the World War I home front, popular fiction, advertising, and constructions of race and gender during this period. Until the development of this digital edition, the magazine could be accessed by scholars and readers only with great difficulty due to its embrittled condition and rarity. Magazines provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin.
Every Week Essays: Every Week’S Demise, Melissa J. Homestead
Every Week Essays: Every Week’S Demise, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Every Week Magazine, published from 1915-1918, was a significant magazine phenomenon of its day, with a weekly circulation of 600,000 copies. The contents provide a rich cultural resource for those interested in the World War I home front, popular fiction, advertising, and constructions of race and gender during this period. Until the development of this digital edition, the magazine could be accessed by scholars and readers only with great difficulty due to its embrittled condition and rarity. Magazines provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin.
Every Week Essays: Every Week’S Editorial Staff, Melissa J. Homestead
Every Week Essays: Every Week’S Editorial Staff, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Every Week Magazine, published from 1915-1918, was a significant magazine phenomenon of its day, with a weekly circulation of 600,000 copies. The contents provide a rich cultural resource for those interested in the World War I home front, popular fiction, advertising, and constructions of race and gender during this period. Until the development of this digital edition, the magazine could be accessed by scholars and readers only with great difficulty due to its embrittled condition and rarity. Magazines provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin.
Every Week Essays: Interpretive Possibilities, Melissa J. Homestead
Every Week Essays: Interpretive Possibilities, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Every Week Magazine, published from 1915-1918, was a significant magazine phenomenon of its day, with a weekly circulation of 600,000 copies. The contents provide a rich cultural resource for those interested in the World War I home front, popular fiction, advertising, and constructions of race and gender during this period. Until the development of this digital edition, the magazine could be accessed by scholars and readers only with great difficulty due to its embrittled condition and rarity. Magazines provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin.
Every Week Essays: The Contents Of Every Week, Melissa J. Homestead
Every Week Essays: The Contents Of Every Week, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Every Week Magazine, published from 1915-1918, was a significant magazine phenomenon of its day, with a weekly circulation of 600,000 copies. The contents provide a rich cultural resource for those interested in the World War I home front, popular fiction, advertising, and constructions of race and gender during this period. Until the development of this digital edition, the magazine could be accessed by scholars and readers only with great difficulty due to its embrittled condition and rarity. Magazines provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin.
Regular contributors of advice and commentary included Albert W. Atwood and Burton J. Hendrick. …
Every Week Essays: Associated Sunday Magazines And The Origins Of Every Week, Melissa J. Homestead
Every Week Essays: Associated Sunday Magazines And The Origins Of Every Week, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Every Week Magazine, published from 1915-1918, was a significant magazine phenomenon of its day, with a weekly circulation of 600,000 copies. The contents provide a rich cultural resource for those interested in the World War I home front, popular fiction, advertising, and constructions of race and gender during this period. Until the development of this digital edition, the magazine could be accessed by scholars and readers only with great difficulty due to its embrittled condition and rarity. Magazines provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin.